By BUD FISHER
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"An expensive mistake" the Admiralty, which cost the nation more than £322,000, is criticised in the second, report of the Committee of Public Ac-
SHIELDED CHILD'S BODY
It is revealed that during a re- cent air raid in the North-East of England, Mr. George Roseblade, a traveller employed by a London firm of wholesale milliners, saved the life of a young child.
Criticism of public-houses which supply soldiers with considerable | counts. quantities of drink was made by The mistake refers to the train- Mr. Justice, Atkinson at the Olding ship H.M.S. Caledonia, tor- Bailey.
merly the liner Majestic, 64,000 tons. When the vessel was bought The judge was summing-up in by the Admiralty the cost of Mr. Roseblade was on his round he trial of Walter Ernest Dew conversion to a training ship was when he ran into the raid. After berry, 32, a corporal in the Au-estimated at £150,000. The ac-dropping four bombs a. German kiliary Pioneer Corps, who was tual cost turned out to be aeroplane swooped low and began found guilty of wounding his con- £472,056.
machine-gunning.
Amid the half of bullets Mr. Roseblade jumped from his car, seized the child, and holding her so that her body was shielded by his own, dashed along the road towards shelter.
manding officer, Major Cyril The Admiralty thought she Onlookers dashed for 'sheiter, Ernest Butler with intent to do! would be good for 10 years, but but a frightened four-year-old him some grievous bodily harm, last year she was seriously dam-girl was left standing on the foot- at Boreham Wood, Herts. Dew-aged by fire. One reason for the path. perry was found not guilty of decision to make no further use shooting with intent to murder. of her as a training establish- Sentence was postponed until the ment was that her size made her following day.
a very vulnerable target.
It is also discovered in the committee's report that, after four years of investigation into overhead and other charges, nego- tiations between "an important armament firm and the Director of Navy Contracts have now "It seems all wrong," he added, reached the stage of fixing the that soldiers who have to be rate of profit." ready for action at any time, The committee says it "cannot should be served with all this think that prolonged uncertainty drink which destroys their powers as to prices tends to efficiency f quick action, proper control and and economy either in produc- resistance."
tion or administration."
Mr. Justice Atkinson said it was clear that the occurrence would not have happened if Dewberry had not been served with pint after pint.
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In the middle of the road he stumbled and fell.
He injured his arm, but he got up again, still covering the child, and reached a safe place. He at Arst refused to give his name, but later did so, adding "Please don't make a hero of me." Mr. Roseblade volunteered some time ago as a pilot in the R.A.F. He
was rejected on medical grounds, but has now accepted ser- vice as an air gunner and I's wait- ing to be called up.
"What I saw in that little raid has made me even keaner to be up with the R.A.F.," he said, "cspecially as the German bomber which machine-gunned those civi- lians
was brought down
a few minutes later, before our 'eyes, by three Spitfires."
A representative of Mr. Rose- blade's firm said," "We have heard |nothing from him about his bra- very. All we have had is a short message telling us he had been in a raid, but was safe."
GOD OF WAR FOR U.S.
Skanda, the Hindu God of War, was the cause of the chief contest j at Christie's recently. He figured in an XIth century bronze group. which Lady Wenloch had given to the Red Cross. This group, as Sir Eric Maclagan told me, is matched by one which Lord Wenloch pre- sented to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1929.
The richly-endowed museum of fine arts in Boston, Mass, has been waiting for such a group for some time. Accordingly the American trustees begged Sir Eric to sec that they were represented in the bidding. Messrs. Spink, readily acted, and at 480gns, the impres- sive group was declared to be..an acquisition for Boston. The total of the sale now stands at £55,000.
The picture of " Eton College painted by Wyck in 1800, and pre- sented to the Red Cross by Lord Fairhaven. realised £336 last Friday. I learn that a few old Etonians are rapidly finding the purchase money for the picture to be in its proper home..
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